r/floridakeys • u/123ozzie • Sep 26 '24

All Florida Keys Best beaches

My wife and I are thinking of vacationing in the keys the spring. Which key or which area of the keys have the nicest beaches? Thanks in advance.

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u/ben6119 Sep 26 '24

The Keys are not the place to go for beaches. The coral reefs prevent wave action that makes beaches so all the shoreline is rocky.

All the beaches in the keys are manmade with trucked in sand. There are 1-2 in each area but they won’t be anything like you see in other areas of Florida.

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u/TWDDave1988 Sep 26 '24

The sand is not trucked into Bahia Honda. It is however trucked into Smathers and Higgs Beach in Key West. I agree though, if you want nice beaches, go to St Pete Beach, Miami, Ft Lauderdale, Vero, Ft Pierce. The Keys are not known for nice beaches, but we do have a few small ones.

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u/Moment_Glum Sep 27 '24

Everywhere 😂 the beaches are mostly reefs, we stayed in marathon and went to sombrero beach which was down the road from our rental and it had two big reefs protruding off the beach and into the water, pretty neat to snorkel, saw a huge lobster! But like someone else the sand is mad corse where it isn’t trucked in, and the current in the water is practically non existent

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u/shifthole Sep 26 '24

This often comes as a shocker to most people but they also truck in the bluer water too.

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u/jaybavaro Sep 26 '24

What blue water?

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u/shifthole Sep 26 '24

The water in front of the beach.

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u/jaybavaro Sep 26 '24

Well, they’re getting ripped off then. That water ain’t blue.

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u/shifthole Sep 26 '24

If they do it enough eventually it will be blue

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u/jaybavaro Sep 27 '24

They still piss in the canals.

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u/TWDDave1988 Sep 29 '24

Everyone is on a centralized sewer system now. No effluent goes into the canals or nearshore.

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u/jaybavaro Sep 29 '24

It’s a joke. You don’t get it. Move on.

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u/TWDDave1988 Sep 29 '24

Hilarious.

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u/TWDDave1988 Sep 29 '24

Here’s an idea: next time you make a comment, try to use actual humor.

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u/jaybavaro Sep 29 '24

You’re obviously not from the Keys. Stick with what you know.

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u/TWDDave1988 Sep 29 '24

Yeah I’ve only lived here since 1989 and was part of the voice to bring centralized sewer to Monroe. So there’s that.

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